Prologue

Stephanie Foo talks with two Army officers with very different political views about the week’s results.

A guy goes to a funeral for someone he doesn’t know at all, and has to piece together everything about him.

Producer Nancy Updike goes to the West Bank to investigate why Israeli soldiers routinely wake up Palestinian families in the middle of the night, to take photos of the teen boys in the house.

Lots of things go unspoken between family members, sometimes for years.

Ira Glass talks to journalist Jochen Bittner about a political lie from 1920s Germany and the lessons it holds for 2020s America.

Ira talks with Connie Rex about the deer she and her sisters kidnapped and ended up putting into their school’s Christmas pageant in Woodruff, Utah, in a starring role.